Hi,
I recently started using book designer, to edit some books I have into the LRF format.

I've had several questions answered by Patricia who was so willing to spend her time helping me out, and I've learned lots already. I spend also a considerable amount of time browsing through the ever longer getting forums, both through the old and new posts, and honestly all this information is driving me nuts .. lol

Whenever a problem arises I can eliminate the problem by changing a setting in BD, but that only leads to another problem.
Like this:

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Suggested was to create emdashes from double lines like this: '--'.
I can now do that in MS Word, but I've read about Book Cleaner files, which should do the same thing in BD. I've tried them out, and found all words with 'oe' get replaced by '—'.
Is there any solution to this?
At the moment I'll do the conversion in Word, but it seems book designer reconverts emdashes back to a single dash '-' again,so I'm basically back at the beginning.

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I currently only own a Sony Reader, so I save in LRF format. But it's just the touch of a button to convert it to Mobi or other formats.
Would you suggest me converting to another format as well?(despite not having a reader to compare how the text will look like?)

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Are there any macro's that can remove footnotes from the text to the bottom of the document?(they are mainly references)
I remember someone writing about them, but I can't seem to find their post back.
My footnotes are all like this: "[Footnote: ...blabla footnote here...]"

open tools/Book Cleaner and in the window that opens, at the bottom load into input file:before formatting 1.bcf and into input file:after formatting 2.bcf , then save making sure you have 'whole' ticked on the loaded book section first, close Book Cleaner.

Then go into settings and make sure the language is set to German. This should now work when you next load a book, allowing all emdashes and 'oe' to show correctly.

as for 2: I always save my book as a Book Designer file first then as an lrf. That way if you ever wish to change formats you can load the Book Designer version and save again as another type of file.

Hi,
I recently started using book designer, to edit some books I have into the LRF format.

I've had several questions answered by Patricia who was so willing to spend her time helping me out, and I've learned lots already. I spend also a considerable amount of time browsing through the ever longer getting forums, both through the old and new posts, and honestly all this information is driving me nuts .. lol

Have you gone through my BD tutorial? That covers pretty much all the basics.

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Suggested was to create emdashes from double lines like this: '--'.
I can now do that in MS Word, but I've read about Book Cleaner files, which should do the same thing in BD. I've tried them out, and found all words with 'oe' get replaced by '—'.
Is there any solution to this?

Make sure the language is NOT set to "English" (yes, I know that's not intuitive!). I always have it set to German.

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I currently only own a Sony Reader, so I save in LRF format. But it's just the touch of a button to convert it to Mobi or other formats.

Do NOT use BD to create MobiPocket files - it create a very old version of the MobiPocket file format which has all sorts of problems. Best way to create a MobiPocket book once you have it looking nice in BD is to use the "Save As" menu in BD to save the book as HTML, then use MobiPocket Creator to create a Mobi book from the HTML. It takes less than 5 minutes for the entire process - I've written another tutorial which gives step-by-step instructions.

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Are there any macro's that can remove footnotes from the text to the bottom of the document?(they are mainly references)
I remember someone writing about them, but I can't seem to find their post back.
My footnotes are all like this: "[Footnote: ...blabla footnote here...]"

Not that I know of, but I find it a sufficiently rapid manual process that it's never been an issue.

concerning Book Cleaner I've done as you say, still it does not seem to work... Every M-dash or doubledash gets converted to a single dash

There is an option when you go to Make Sony Reader File under options that dictates how dashes come out.

When you go to make the LRF, select the options tab and then look under misc. Where you see dashes, change to as it is. That will keep the dashes as they are be they em dashes, en dashes, or dashes. If it is set to short, middle, or long, then all the dahses will be changed to that one dash size.